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The Journal of Discourses (often abbreviated J.D.) is a 26-volume collection of public sermons by early leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The first editions of the Journal were published in England by George D. Watt, the stenographer of Brigham Young.
1853–1856 [10] monthly Augustus Farnham Sydney, Australia The Mormon: 1854–1857 weekly newspaper Defending the LDS Church John Taylor: New York City Journal of Discourses: 1854–1886 sixteen-page semi-monthly Sermons of LDS leaders George D. Watt: Liverpool, England: Watt was succeeded by David W. Evans, then George W. Gibbs.
George Darling Watt (12 May 1812 – 24 October 1881) [2] was the first convert to Mormonism baptized in the British Isles.As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Watt was a secretary to Brigham Young, the primary editor of the Journal of Discourses, and the primary inventor of the Deseret Alphabet.
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought is an independent quarterly journal that addresses a wide range of issues on Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint Movement. The journal publishes peer-reviewed academic articles on subjects such as anthropology, sociology, theology, history, and science. The journal also publishes fiction, poetry, and graphic ...
In 1918, Frederick J. Pack, a Mormon professor at the University of Utah, published an article in an official church magazine in which he reasoned that because Coca-Cola contained caffeine, which is also present in tea and coffee, Mormons should abstain from Coca-Cola in the same way that they abstain from the Word of Wisdom "hot drinks". [41]
The journal was a venue for new scholarship from a faithful LDS perspective about Book of Mormon geography (Old World and New World), literary structures, name meanings, ongoing research, and other topics. [1] The journal, along with FARMS, operated from the assumption that the Book of Mormon was historically ancient and was divine scripture.
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The sermon was not always viewed in a favorable light by leaders of the LDS Church [6] or other denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement. It was not published in the LDS Church's 1912 History of the Church because of then-church president Joseph F. Smith's discomfort with some ideas in the sermon popularized by the editor of the project, B. H. Roberts of the First Council of the Seventy. [7]